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Live Longer, Stay Leaner: 7 Japanese Habits for a Healthier Life
Have you ever wondered why Japanese people are renowned for their long lives and remarkable health? They not only enjoy ...
Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...
Japan’s loneliness epidemic is so bad that elderly women are committing crimes to find friends and health care in prison
Japan, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health ...
Japanese aquarium places cardboard cutouts of people near tank of singular sunfish to cure its loneliness
Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.
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The Depiction of Hikikomori in Japanese Pop Culture: Can the Anime Industry Help ‘Social Recluses’ Break out of Their Shells?
As a result, pop culture is habitually paying lip service rather than helping the actual cause. Lack of knowledge on the part of the consumer is the usual suspect. Heed the disclaimer while reading on ...
Japanese aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish with cardboard cutouts of people
How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...
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Study: 1 in 50 Japanese people suffers from eye misalignment
About one of every 50 Japanese people suffers from strabismus, a condition that causes patients’ right and left eyes to become misaligned, a research team from Kyoto University found. In ...
Three people stabbed in random attack at bus stop near Japan ski resort
He used a blade-like object to attack three people waiting for a bus near the station, police said. One of them, Hiroyuki ...